Dear list, I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. I need only a few MB storage space and no particular features beyond SMTP and IMAP. The reason I ask is that Dovecot is known to implement the IMAP spec quite respectfully, and I am writing a software which uses IMAP search (so I would suggest my users to register an e-mail to a provider implementing correctly the IMAP Search specifications, to reduce the probability of bugs). (More details here: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1821627.) Do you know of any such provider? -- Olivier
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 04:30:21PM +0200, Olivier Cailloux wrote:> I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run > Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access.Possibly Posteo. Not free IIRC, but very inexpensive (~1EUR/month). -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
>> I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run >> Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. > >Possibly Posteo. Not free IIRC, but very inexpensive (~1EUR/month).I already offered him a free account to test with, and some GB's of testing mail. But him seem to have disappeared already ;)
Le dimanche 27 septembre 2020 ? 16:30 +0200, Olivier Cailloux a ?crit :> Dear list, > > I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run > Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. I need only a few MB > storage space and no particular features beyond SMTP and IMAP. > > The reason I ask is that Dovecot is known to implement the IMAP spec > quite respectfully, and I am writing a software which uses IMAP > search > (so I would suggest my users to register an e-mail to a provider > implementing correctly the IMAP Search specifications, to reduce the > probability of bugs). (More details here: > https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1821627 > .) > > Do you know of any such provider?Thanks to those who responded, offering me access to their servers. (I am sorry, it seems that I can?t reply to these answers individually when they are not in my inbox; something I had not realized initially, having not used mailing lists since long.) These private offers are very kind, but my question was more about finding a provider who offers this access as a normal service, not as some special favor to me. That?s because I want to recommend this provider to the users of a software I am developing. And I do not expect my users will agree to pay some fee (even a low fee) to register for an e-mail address just to use my software, so I?d recommend only a provider who gives starter plans for free. (Of course these users in turn would perhaps then upgrade their plan if they want to.) So far I didn?t find a service provider providing free e-mail accounts (similar to GMail, Yahoo, ?) and using Dovecot, which I find very surprising, as I thought some of these big names, or at least some smaller ones that I do not know, would use Dovecot. Thanks again for the replies, anyway. -- Olivier
>Le dimanche 27 septembre 2020 ? 16:30 +0200, Olivier Cailloux a ?crit: >> Dear list, >> >> I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run >> Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. I need only a few MB >> storage space and no particular features beyond SMTP and IMAP. >> >> The reason I ask is that Dovecot is known to implement the IMAP spec >> quite respectfully, and I am writing a software which uses IMAP >> search >> (so I would suggest my users to register an e-mail to a provider >> implementing correctly the IMAP Search specifications, to reduce the >> probability of bugs). (More details here: >> https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1821627 >> .) >> > > > >These private offers are very kind, but my question was more about >finding a provider who offers this access as a normal service, not as >some special favor to me. That?s because I want to recommend this >provider to the users of a software I am developing. And I do not >expect my users will agree to pay some fee (even a low fee) to register There is no such thing as free. If you do not pay anything, you know you are the product. >for an e-mail address just to use my software, so I?d recommend only a >provider who gives starter plans for free. (Of course these users in >turn would perhaps then upgrade their plan if they want to.) I don't think providers would be very willing (understatement) to install your software on their platform that services their other clients. I assume this is server side, since you enquire about dovecot. >So far I didn?t find a service provider providing free e-mail accounts >(similar to GMail, Yahoo, ?) and using Dovecot, which I find very >surprising, as I thought some of these big names, or at least some >smaller ones that I do not know, would use Dovecot. > T-mobile uses dovecot, find t-mobile users ;)
> On 7. Oct 2020, at 17.35, Olivier Cailloux <olivier.cailloux at dauphine.fr> wrote: > > So far I didn?t find a service provider providing free e-mail accounts > (similar to GMail, Yahoo, ?) and using Dovecot, which I find very > surprising, as I thought some of these big names, or at least some > smaller ones that I do not know, would use Dovecot.There is always mailbox.org <http://mailbox.org/> available that runs on dovecot. Not free, but 1?/month is not far from that. Sami -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20201010/040440d1/attachment.html>